Compute
Cache Is King
The gap between the performance of processors, broadly defined, and the performance of DRAM main memory, also broadly defined, has been an issue for at least three decades when the gap really started to open up. …
IBM
HPC
HPC In 2020: Compute Engine Diversity Gets Real
The choice of processors available for high performance computing has been on growing for a number of years. …
HPC
Bending The Supercomputing Cost Curve Down
One of the recurring themes at the recent HPC Day event that we hosted ahead of the SC19 supercomputing conference in Denver was that capability class supercomputers are getting more and more expensive. …
Compute
The Potential Of Red Hat Plus Power Is Larger Than Exascale
Red Hat is coming onto IBM’s books at just the right time, and to be honest, it might have been better for Big Blue if the deal to acquire the world’s largest supplier of support and packaging services for open source software had closed maybe one or two quarters ago. …
Store
Is Amazon’s Database Strategy A Glimpse Into The Future?
IBM, through the work of Edgar Codd, invented the ideas behind the relational database back in 1970. …
Compute
IBM Readies Power9 “Bandwidth Beast” Kicker
Big Blue has become a big believer in using differential signaling to attach everything – and we mean everything – to the processor. …
Cloud
Microsoft Brings IBM Power Iron To Azure Cloud
Under most circumstances, the major public cloud builders would like to use their own iron in their datacenters. …
Compute
Big Blue Open Sources Power Chip Instruction Set
It has been a long time coming, and it might have been better if this had been done a decade ago. …
Compute
Talking High Bandwidth With IBM’s Power10 Architect
As the lead engineer on the Power10 processor, Bill Starke already knows what most of us have to guess about Big Blue’s next iteration in a processor family that has been in the enterprise market in one form or another for nearly three decades. …
Cloud
Big Blue’s Red Hat Brings A Big Change Of Heart
Perhaps, many years hence, we will call the company that, more than any other, created the enterprise computing environment Big Purple now that it has acquired the company that made open source software in the enterprise safe, sane, and affordable. …